By Deanna Archetto Another year’s gone by and Topshelf Records have out-samplered the year-end sampler corner of the music world. Their 93-song sampler came out a few days after the end of the year, but it was worth the wait. This year, following the format of previous years, they’ve divided the artists featured on the […]
By Deanna Archetto Tegmental, a budding record label out of Boston, released their two-part holiday EP today, just in time to wrap up the year. It features original acoustic songs by local musicians like The Rare Occasions, Anjimile, Houseguests, and more. Most of these songs were recorded during the month of December right at Tegmental […]
The end of 2014 and the end of Allston’s pop punkers Shambles are nigh! We asked Shambles some questions before their last show at O’Brien’s on 12/23.
By Deanna Archetto I didn’t realize how early of a show Sunday night at Paradise was going to be, so I accidentally missed Crying and Somos, two killer bands opening Modern Baseball‘s headlining tour. Pop-punk kids have early bedtimes it seems. I walked in as Foxing were setting up, and as soon as they started playing […]
By Deanna Archetto Exploding in Sound artist Leapling released the first single off of their upcoming album Vacant Page today. The song, titled “Silent Stone,” is a spacey exploration, with hypnotic stream-of-conscious writing and light rhythms. At the very beginning, it doesn’t sound like a song by an Exploding in Sound artist, a label which […]
Krill announced their new album, A Distant Fist Unclenching, will drop on February 15 and tossed up new single “Torturer” to stream.
By Deanna Archetto photo by Erin Caruso The Sater brothers are now proud home owners in the Boston music scene. Joseph and Nabil Sater, owners of the Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub in Central Square, Cambridge, went ahead and purchased the building where they’ve had live music going almost every night of the year for […]
By Deanna Archetto Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted yesterday in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, resulting in unrest among the citizens of Ferguson, MO, and the rest the nation. On the day Michael Brown died, Illinois-native and Bar/None Records musician Ezra Furman wrote a song entitled “Ferguson’s Burning” in response. Today, […]
By Deanna Archetto Elvis Depressedly released their video for “No More Sad Songs,” (n.m.s.s.) yesterday, which was directed by band member Delaney Mills. These South Carolina sweethearts melded together creepy old footage of puppeteers and gallivants across some foggy hills as the backdrop to their actually very sad — but also beautiful– song. Take a […]
By Deanna Archetto Keep Safe Boston, an upstart community organization, released their first digital compilation album to benefit Planned Parenthood today. This 50 song pay-what-you-can compilation features artists from all over New England. Event producer Anngelle Wood (host of Boston Emissions on WZLX) founded Keep Safe Boston with the idea of fostering a safer, more […]